What Lies Beneath: The Rhetoric of the Underworld

Research Skills

A guide to resources for PWR 1GTA: What Lies Beneath: The Rhetoric of the Underworld. Topics include: paradigms of good and evil, justice and punishment; narratives of inclusion and exclusion, social separation and hierarchy.

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Background/Reference Sources

Use these sources to help you pick a topic and to provide context to your research based argument. Note the Library Location of these materials. Many are in the Information Center collection on the 1st floor of Green East.

A detailed bibliography of journal articles, books and dissertations covering literature, language and linguistics, folklore, literary theory & criticism, dramatic arts, as well as the historical aspects of printing and publishing.

Websites of Interest

This 2001 site explores the Los Angeles Police Department Rampart [CRASH unit] scandal and investigation, "a tangled web linking officers with street gangs, drug dealing, and the gangsta rap underworld." Includes a chronology; interviews; rap lyrics about the police; and information on the legacy of the Rodney King beating, Suge Knight, and Death Row Records. From the PBS series Frontline (includes transcript).